A fall sweep — We aspire to build great products that really change people's lives, products they use two or three times a day. To succeed you need real focus and thought—thought about what you work on and, just as important, what you don't work on. It's why we recently decided to shut …

AT&T Activations Servers Overloaded with iPhone 4S Launch — As has happened in the past, it seems AT&T's activation servers are having problems with the large influx of activations with the iPhone 4S launch. A quick search of Twitter shows many having problems activating their AT&T iPhone 4Ss due to server issues.

Steve Jobs Memorial Service To Be Held Oct. 16 — Apple Inc. has invited some of Silicon Valley's biggest names to a memorial service for Steve Jobs Sunday, Oct. 16, according to a copy of the invitation and several invitees. — The event will be held at Stanford University's campus Sunday evening, according to the invitation.

iPad 3 Headed Into Production — With the iPhone 4S arriving at market today, the never-sated Apple rumor mill is clamoring for more grist. And, as always, there's plenty of it to be had, this time involving the iPad 3. — According to Susquehanna Financial analyst Jeff Fidacaro, the device is headed into production.

Skype for Windows updated to remove Google product bundling — Skype updated version 5.5 and 5.6 of its Windows product on Friday to remove Google products from the installer. — The removal of Google's toolbar from the Skype installer comes shortly after the finalization of Microsoft's Skype deal on Friday.

First steps Towards MMS support — MMS has been one of the constant feature requests since we launched Google Voice and we've been hard at work trying to make this happen. — Today, we're happy to announce that we've made the first step in our efforts to bring this feature to our users.

What the BlackBerry outage will cost RIM — The most severe BlackBerry service disruption in the history of Research In Motion Ltd. could cost the Canadian mobile device maker more than US$100-million in lost revenues. — As some argue the damage to RIM's future ability to brand its smartphones …

Jail Sentence for Pirate Bay Co-Founder Made Final — November last year, the Swedish Appeal Court found three people behind The Pirate Bay guilty of contributory copyright infringement offenses. The trio were handed prison sentences and ordered to pay millions of dollars in damages.

Just Win, Baby — The biggest challenge I faced as a tech blogger was a simple one: motivation. By that, I don't mean that it was hard to write — it never was. But towards the end, it was getting hard to get excited to write on a daily basis. I needed to be driven. That's when I'm at my best.